John Alexander and I are excited to start offering training in Kansas City and our first classes have been scheduled in May for SharePoint 2013. Here is the schedule: 5/13 – 5/17 | Professional SharePoint ...

Last month I decided to switch to Verizon and in doing so switch to an HTC 8x after around 4 or 5 years with an Apple iPhone. I wanted to try something new and see what the other side was like and I wanted ...

Here are the top 5 most recommended apps designed for Developers in Windows Store. TOP 1. Code Writer Code Writer is a free text and code editor app with active syntax highlighting that updates as you ...

The Exchange Server product line experienced a few changes with the introduction of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. Exchange Server 2013 brings with it a whole new set of services, technologies and features ...

Traditional file sharing protocols, such as Server Message Block ( SMB ) in Windows Server 2012, are primarily designed for low-latency, high-bandwidth scenarios commonly found in Local Area Networks ( ...

Hey guys it’s been a busy year so far. I have a lot of goals unrelated to technology, but fear not I will be at Code Camps, Other Tech Events, and SharePoint Saturdays. Here is a list of my upcoming speaking, ...

So I just had an interesting experience recently at work. I did my first webpart upgrade from Visual Studio 2010 to Visual Studio 2012 last week (SharePoint 2010 to 2013). I realized when I deployed the ...

I’ll be presenting at TechEd and TechDays in India, there is a lot to look forward to as the events will be hosted across India. Bangalore will be hosting TechEd on 18-19th March, Delhi will be hosting ...

SharePoint stores most of its data in SQL Server, optimizing the overall SharePoint user experience has focus on how these products are integrated. During this Jump Start, two of the industry’s most popular ...

The page to set up alerts for a SharePoint list requires the list ID to be passed in as a query string. The follow code will get the ID for the list with a specific title. It will then open the alerts ...

As you may know, every Windows installation starting with Vista has a winsxs directory that takes up a lot of space... not a problem when you have a 500GB volume... but a big problem when you have a VPS ...

As versions of the server products have changed, and a more “modern” interface and cleaner display is about. Well, so are the Visio stencils we should be using when designing our infrastructure or enterprise ...

A customer I am working with is interested in an ‘automated deployment and release management’ solution for their 160 applications scaling across 350 servers. There is a mix of Microsoft and Non Microsoft ...

Thomas Larock blogged about the impending uncertainty/doom of the MVP summit; the topic isn’t new, as all of us as MVPs can remember the various glory days of only a few years ago compared to today. For ...

Last week I upgraded my TFS 2012 test environment to CTP3 to try out the new features rolled out in preview as part of the Visual Studio 2012 Upgrade 2 CTP. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the ...

Today we arranged monthly usergroup meet-up at Microsoft by our SharePoint Experts–Bangladesh community. It is first offline meet-up with community members/ outside community (who were interested to join ...

Team Foundation Server Backups - You need to install the ‘Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Update xx Power Tool’ on the application-tier for Team Foundation Server. The tool can schedule backups ...

How to create a custom hit counter webpart for SharePoint internal web portal. This is a common requirement sometimes from the client to integrate hit counter for their internal enterprise web portal. ...

How to use formatting rules in Info Path 2010 by advance conditioning using userName() function and substring-before() & substring-after(). Scenario: I have a List Form customized by InfoPath Designer ...

What kind of hardware do you need to do SharePoint environment?Microsoft recommends a minimum of 32Gb for SharePoint Server, less for SharePoint Foundation.But there are not many laptops in the wild with ...

Here we go again! South Florida Code Camp is about to start tomorrow, Saturday Feb 9 2013, at NOVA University in Fort Lauderdale. I have seen this event grow every year; over 900 people were registered ...

Unit testing SharePoint is difficult for a number of reasons.One of the better known ones is perhaps that of the GAC; the .net loader ("Fusion") will use assemblies from the GAC even if you specify the ...

Problem Details: We have created a custom reusable workflow and added with a list on which a workflow (custom workflow) is to start automatically when the item is created. It works great when I add a new ...

Hey guys, Sorry that I've not been updating my blog for quite some time now, as I've been rather busy a work in my ex company. I didn't even have time for my family, not to mention about blogging!Phew! ...

Errors were found when compiling the workflow. The workflow files were saved but cannot be run. Advanced: Unexpected error on server associating the workflow This is a SharePoint 2010 SP1 Bug and Error ...

We wanted to add a button to the ribbon which lets the user select two or more items, and do simultaneous edits to selected columns. Creating ribbon buttons is eeeeeasy. Cksdev even has a built-in template ...

Problem Definition I am about to take ownership of a TFS 2005 repository that has projects for BizTalk, SharePoint, SSIS, SSAS, different flavors of .NET, to complicate things, the customer is using different ...

Late last year Microsoft launched TFS in the cloud at https://tfs.visualstudio.com. It is free for 5 users and less. Microsoft hasn’t completely worked out the pricing yet for larger teams, but that will ...

So I kept getting this really weird “Unable to load Visual Studio Project” basically it was the I’m missing a template error message look in the output. I eventually realize there is a dependency for the ...

Background: SharePoint is nothing new for us as it is already Implements in the most of Large Organization in Bangladesh. Most of the Telco Providers (GP, Robi Axiata, BanglaLink etc) are already using ...

Recently at the BizTalk Summit in London I was asked a question about Message Archiving from BizTalk and one of the most common solutions to this is the Message Archiving Pipeline Component which was written ...

I had been given a business requirement to provide a self service Website for job scheduling. Having worked with Quartz.Net, it seemed the perfect backend engine to schedule and process jobs. I decided ...

It’s been quite a while since I’ve written a blog entry. I seem to start every year with a goal of writing X number of blog entries per month or week or something, so let’s see if I do any better this ...

As you guys know I have decided to start delving into mobile development. I bought a Macbook Air a few months back and I am now getting an HTC 8x. Here are some things that I have learned in my attempts ...

One of the new cool features in SQL 2012 is the SQL Server Availability groups. In other words being able to failover a group of databases which are logically connected. i.e. SharePoint databases. Well ...

My good friend and colleague, Tommy Patterson, recently blogged about leveraging the Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) preview offering to build a FREE lab environment in the Cloud. You ...

It seems it was only yesterday that I was writing about starting my 4th year at IdentityMine, and here we are now, more than a year later. The year 2012 has been particularly interesting for all of us ...

Five years ago I drove down in an old Cadillac to Virginia Beach, VA from Raleigh, NC with Michael Lotter, a coworker named Nas, and Josh Carlisle. Now hundreds of events have occurred in places like Perth, ...

Let’s start with a few interesting facts about Bristol, Bristol is located just 120 miles west of London. It is the largest city in the south west of England. Bristol is a 45 mile trip across the Bristol ...

Comparing WFE servers One of the SharePoint farms I am involved with has a load balanced pair of WFE. One of the web parts had acted sporadically – at times working well, at others not at all and I suspected ...

At http://www.apress.com/97814... APress are offering "PowerPivot for Business Intelligence Using Excel and SharePoint" for $10."PowerPivot for Business Intelligence Using Excel and SharePoint takes ...

I will explain the process of installing SharePoint 2013 on a Windows 8 Hyper V in a disconnected scenario. This matters for the prerequisites which by default downloads the prerequisites if run from the ...

Hey everyone, I know many of us regularly use Sharepoint for document storage in order to make documents available to several people, have it version controlled, etc. Doing this through the Web UI can ...